Quotes About Temperament

Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.

Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.

pleasing personality.

If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.

I don't particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.

They had all the means to develop a spinning machine, but "nobody tried"—another example of knowledge hampering optionality. They probably needed someone like Steve Jobs—blessed with an absence of college education and the right aggressiveness of temperament—to take the elements to their natural conclusion. As we will see in the next section, it is precisely this type of uninhibited doer who made the Industrial Revolution happen.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of individual freedom and makes no allowances for differences in temperament and feeling.

Monroe had in fact preached that God was not at all such a one as ourselves, not one to be temperamentally inclined to tread ragefully upon us until our blood flew up and stained all His white raiment, but rather that He looked on both the best and worst of mankind with weary, bemused pity.

Emma has switched from sanguine to sanguinary in a matter of seconds

For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the slender evidence of appearance.

It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

Some days I'm in a good mood and sometimes I'm bad.

Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in.

My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.

I'm very sensitive; I'm not moody.

I am very moody and I work only when I feel like it.

I am very fussy about my clothes and very moody as well.

I'm jealous, I'm moody, I'm really not good to be around as a boyfriend.

I am moody at times and don't get along with everyone.

Sometimes I am moody or bubbly, and then at other times, I just want to disconnect. I am an extreme person.

I'm going to have my moody times.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.